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LANGWORTHY, Franklin (1798-ca 1855). Scenery of the Plains, Mountains, and Mines: or a Diary kept upon the Overland Route to California, by Way of the Great Salt Lake: Travels in the Cities, Mines, and Agricultural Districts - Embracing the return by the Pacific Ocean and Central America, in the Years 1850, 51, 52, and 53. Ogdensburgh, N.Y.: J.C. Sprague, 1855.
8o (200 x 120 mm). (4 leaves [pp. 253-260] with short marginal tear, affecting a few words, some scattered light foxing at beginning and end.) Original cloth (some minor discoloration). Provenance: Thomas W. Streeter (bookplate; his sale part V, Parke Bernet, 23 October 1968, lot 3179; purchased from Edward Eberstadt & Sons, 1928).
FIRST EDITION. Langworthy crossed the Missouri River at Council Bluffs on May 14, 1850. He reached Fort Laramie on June 13, South Pass on June 29, Granite Pass by way of Salt Lake City on September 9, and the Humboldt Sink on October 2. He crossed over the Sierra Nevada by way of Carson Pass and arrived in Sacramento on October 27. "Langworthy spent two years traveling throughout California and the mining regions and presented his readers with a compact, but vividly written description of the mines, mining methods, and mining society. His accounts of thievery and gambling halls painted a sordid picture of the land of gold" (Kurutz). Cowan I p.383; Flake 4741; Graff 2392; Howes L-84; Kurutz 392a; Mintz 284; Rader 2201; Sabin 38904; Streeter sale V:3179 (this copy); Wagner-Camp-Becker 258; Wheat Books of the California Gold Rush 122.
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FIRST EDITION. Langworthy crossed the Missouri River at Council Bluffs on May 14, 1850. He reached Fort Laramie on June 13, South Pass on June 29, Granite Pass by way of Salt Lake City on September 9, and the Humboldt Sink on October 2. He crossed over the Sierra Nevada by way of Carson Pass and arrived in Sacramento on October 27. "Langworthy spent two years traveling throughout California and the mining regions and presented his readers with a compact, but vividly written description of the mines, mining methods, and mining society. His accounts of thievery and gambling halls painted a sordid picture of the land of gold" (Kurutz). Cowan I p.383; Flake 4741; Graff 2392; Howes L-84; Kurutz 392a; Mintz 284; Rader 2201; Sabin 38904; Streeter sale V:3179 (this copy); Wagner-Camp-Becker 258; Wheat Books of the California Gold Rush 122.